240 CHIEFS & CITIES OF CENTRAL AFRICA 



his station, to see if it is fit for work, but in Bornu 

 this was the task of the Resident at Gujiba. It must 

 be a severe tax upon him and a very unpleasant 

 addition to his duties, and one too that requires a 

 good deal of knowledge, for most of the cattle have 

 scars that tell of once sore backs even though they 

 be healed and painless now. 



Our tents were pitched in the very middle of Kaua 

 Baga : over 1000 people had assembled to attend the 

 market, and in the morning we wandered amongst 

 them, taking photographs and offering a price for 

 any personal possession we coveted. Mr Talbot was 

 soon surrounded by a mob thrusting a medley of 

 objects upon him — spears, toe-rings, pincers, shields, 

 and ambach floats. Also Buduma canoes, that were 

 there in process of construction, but their weight, 



even in the dry state, was too 

 great to admit of carriage, so 

 we contented ourselves with pur- 

 chasino- models. 



The women were hideous : some 

 had partially shaven heads with a 

 centre - piece of wool. Another 

 style of coiffure, the Kanembu, 

 is sometimes finished with a series 

 of metal rings hung one below 

 the other. All round the lobes 

 of the ears rings are worn, also 

 made of metal, or, where this fails, of string, and 

 sometimes a cylindrical bead of imitation coral is 

 added. 



In contrast with the interesting races amongst 

 whom we had lived since entering French Ubangi, 



Hair Ornament. 



